Land Reforms

As ‘land’ is a State subject under the Constitution, different States have evolved differently in the field of land management. In fact there may be different systems in different regions of the same State also. The Central Government has only a limited role to play in this regard.At the time of independence, the land tenure system was characterized by intermediaries variously called zamindars, jagirdars, etc. who merely collected rent from the actual tillers of the soil without contributing towards improvements on the farm.